THERE WERE 50,000 illegal bore-holes in Cyprus said a water board official yesterday, as he tried to explain why a spring in Farmakas village, which had been running for as long as people remembered, was drying out.

The technology consists of drilling twinned horizontal wells up to one-half mile from the surface locations, injecting steam into one bore-hole in order to make the tarry oil more fluid, and then flowing the oil from the other well at high production rates and pressures.

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